Word: quaff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stirling Moss. "It's not a race but a circus." Three hundred thousand spectators flock to Le Mans, spend more than $1,000,000 on other amusements as the sports cars roar over public roads through the 24-hour grind. They roam through 500-odd fair stands, quaff more than 100,000 liters of wine, beer and soft drinks, watch professional wrestling matches just 50 yards from the track, ogle strippers and snake dancers, cram all-night dance halls and, when they run down, catch a few winks in 20,000 sleeping tents booked to capacity...
...leaving only the faintest of traces. Last week Archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor reported the discovery and exploration of the biggest early Anglo-Saxon structure yet found in Britain-one of the rectangular great halls described in Beowulf, where a leader's thegns gathered to tell tall stories or quaff themselves torpid on mead or beer...
...mastication. Nothing, concluded Grandma, could redeem Menen's Irish mother (to whom she always referred flatly as "the Englishwoman," much irking Mrs. Menen). but if Aubrey wanted to become a true son of Malabar and inherit the family wealth, it was not too late. He had only to quaff a goblet of sacred cow's urine and "the sad accident of being born in London" would be forgotten...
...slithered through the cobbled streets when the first of the 200,000 men, women & children funneled into the old cathedral town of Durham. In a noisy, hilarious parade, they cascaded through the streets to the old abandoned race course, where every year the coal miners of Durham County quaff free beer and quiver at oratory at their annual Miners' Gala (pronounced gayler...
...rule over the Lovedu tribesmen in Africa's northern Transvaal are expected voluntarily to limit their own terms of office. When a rain queen's powers are on the wane (at the age of 60 or thereabouts), tradition calls for her to retire into the hills and quaff a poison compounded of crocodile entrails. This was the way it was in the days of Mujaji I and in the days of Mujaji II (the light-skinned queen who served as a model for H. Rider Haggard's all-powerful She) who dutifully killed herself...